Several HotelPlanner Tour graduates have impressed on the DP World Tour since the start of the 2025 season.
Six of last year’s graduates occupy a spot inside the Race to Dubai’s top 40 after 17 events of the season, with Englishman John Parry the highest placed. Parry earned automatic promotion after recording three victories in 2024 and eventually finished second in the Road to Mallorca Rankings.
The 38-year-old has teed it up on 13 occasions since securing his return to the DP World Tour and made a fast start to the campaign, winning by two shots at the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. That result, combined with two runner up finishes in the Alfred Dunhill Championship and Magical Kenya Open presented by absa, mean Parry is fourth in the Race to Dubai Rankings, behind only Tyrrell Hatton, Laurie Canter and Rory McIlroy.
Reigning Road to Mallorca champion Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen is another graduate who is thriving. The Dane, who like Parry won three HotelPlanner Tour events last year, has three top ten finishes in his last three starts, with the most recent coming at the inaugural Hainan Classic, where he finished fourth. After impressing during the Asian Swing, Neergaard-Petersen finds himself 13th in the Rankings.
Frenchman Martin Couvra is another graduate who has adjusted well to life on Golf’s Global Tour. The Frenchman, who won the 2023 Challenge de España as an amateur, graduated in 2024 after finishing seventh at last year’s Rolex Grand Final supported by The R&A. Couvra has teed it up in 11 DP World Tour events, with his best outing coming at the Hainan Classic, where he finished solo fifth. The 22-year-old is 27th in the Race to Dubai, six spots ahead of fellow 2024 graduate, Brandon Robinson Thompson.
Englishman Robinson Thompson placed third in February’s Commercial Bank Qatar Masters and finished inside the top ten at the Joburg Open. Elsewhere, last year’s Rolex Grand Final winner Kristoffer Reitan jumped up 67 spots in the rankings to 36th after finishing in a tie for second at the Hainan Classic.
Starting the final round three shots back of the lead, the Norwegian fired a five under par 67 to end the week at 14 under par, three shots adrift of winner Marco Penge. Spaniard Angel Ayora, who finished second at last year’s Rolex Grand Final, is 39th in the Race to Dubai Rankings after making ten cuts since earning DP World Tour status.
